08 December 2008

Tribal Society and Kinship

Excerpt:"Let’s look for the social organization of kinship: You’ll find it:A) in all the role relationships (e.g. husband-wife, mother-son, grandfather-granddaughter, etc.) that exist within families and which, taken together, “constitute” the families.B) in kin relations of the more “extended” sort — cousin-cousin, aunt-nephew, etc.C) in the organization of the lineage, and the clan (to use two common cases)."